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What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

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Re: What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

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Post by NDizzle »

alex_young wrote: post #17
apsec112 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article further explains: "HCQ is a cheap generic drug that was widely being given away for free Pharma firms don’t benefit much from picking one generic over another Sanofi was never going to make meaningful money on Plaquenil The disclosures in question were already over a year out of date The disclosures actually show net sales of the Sanofi-related fund (More sourcing for all that here.) It wasn’t just Twitte…

What is misleading about saying Trump “small personal financial interest”? That seems pretty clear cut and truthful.

What do you think a “small personal financial interest” is to a billionaire?! A few million? A few hundred thousand?! Not less than $2k. C’mon man.

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Post by whoisstan »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #4

I wish the NYT would clarify or retract this piece/headline https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-... > Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking > Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States. My company has banned Jetbr…

Interestingly I just had an unrelated discussion on goodreads about that. The first mentioned author of the NYT article is supposedly a cybersecurity expert. The article lacked any evidence and called the company russian and obscure, they edited that but it’s still on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20210106195835/https://www.nytim...

I left a goodreads comment on the NYT authors latest cybersecurity book calling her knowledge and practice in question. How can article like this stand, if it cannot be backed up, bad journalism and a lack understanding of the matter?

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Post by aimor »

"Even so, never once has that led to a public correction."

It's not just you, the US government has this same problem with the NYT where the Times publishes false and damaging (damaging to the public, not to the government) information. In one case I heard of the NYT wouldn't so much as add a link to the government website where people could get the help that the article denied existed.

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Post by dmurray »

alex_young wrote: post #12

From the NYT article this blogger is upset about: “Mr. Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi” “Mistake” he’s highlighting: “ The Sanofi portion of those holdings totalled a max of $1,485”. Sounds like accurate reporting. It wasn’t a huge sum of money, but it’s something, and it has the appearance of a conflict of interest. Edit: before you downvote me, please consider that politicians have h…

$1,485 sounds extraordinarily small! Sanofi is the 70th largest company in the world [0]. If you have even a few hundred thousand dollars invested in a diversified way, you probably have more Sanofi exposure than that.

So yeah, if Sanofi makes money, Trump's thousand dollar investment pays dividends, but he was actually underweight in it. It would be more meaningful and equally truthful to say "Mr. Trump has a financial interest in Sanofi's competitors".

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263264/top-companies-in-...

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Post by ajkjk »

NDizzle wrote: post #21
alex_young wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is misleading about saying Trump “small personal financial interest”? That seems pretty clear cut and truthful.

What do you think a “small personal financial interest” is to a billionaire?! A few million? A few hundred thousand?! Not less than $2k. C’mon man.

It... doesn't matter? The criticism that the statement is wrong isn't right if the statement isn't wrong.

Re: What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes

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Post by tehwebguy »

Headline, abstract and URL edits to NYT are tracked by @nyt_diff on Twitter, it can be very interesting to see: https://twitter.com/nyt_diff

Not sure if they only catch front page article changes or what.

Newspaper article content is a big game that’s worth tracking, but what’s more difficult (probably nearly impossible right now) is local television news. Tons of news is pushed through to a wide audience and then it’s gone as quickly as it came with any damage due to errors or omissions being done instantly and probably permanently.

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